Stolen Property
By carpenter5
@carpenter5 (6782)
United States
August 5, 2009 7:44pm CST
Sometimes it just isn't your day.
In Berlin, an 82 year old woman reported her Audi sedan as stolen. She had taken the car into the mechanic for minor repairs two years ago. The mechanics then drove it back to her house and parked it in her garage, leaving the keys and bill in her mailbox.
The owner found the keys and paperwork, but the car was nowhere to be found, so she reported it stolen!
Last week, her nextdoor neighbor decided to clean up his unused garage so it could be rented out. He found the car under a centimeter-deep coat of dust!
Police were called and the story was quickly pieced together.
My question is why weren't mechanics called and allowed to show police where they parked the car in the first place. This one smells of something funny to me...but perhaps I'm just suspicious.
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5 responses
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
6 Aug 09
I wondered that myself. I can understand him not going in there for a month or so...but two years? I still have to ask why the police didn't question the mechanics who delivered the car further. It sounds to me like they blew this poor old woman off and didn't even try to find her car.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
7 Aug 09
I would have to agree with you on that one. But as I've said from the beginning. I just feel there is something suspicious going on with this story. I'd be checking my odometer and that sort of thing. I wonder if insurance replaced the car?
@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
6 Aug 09
that is a good question. Why didn't the police talk to the mechanics? Why didn't the woman get in touch wiith the mechanics, and see where they left the car? The mechanic should have been better about checking out the address, and leaving the car at the RIGHT house!!! I don't blame the lady. I would have thought it was stolen too, because you really don't expect people to screw up that badly.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
6 Aug 09
But I agree with you. When I first read this, I wondered why in the world that the police didn't question the mechanics, and the neighbors! Did no one see these people bring this car home and put it into the wrong garage? It just sounds really fishy to me.
@danishcanadian (28955)
• Canada
6 Aug 09
that is a good question. Why didn't the police talk to the mechanics? Why didn't the woman get in touch wiith the mechanics, and see where they left the car? The mechanic should have been better about checking out the address, and leaving the car at the RIGHT house!!! I don't blame the lady. I would have thought it was stolen too, because you really don't expect people to screw up that badly.
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@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
6 Aug 09
Well, I could see if the neighbors garage was next to her house, and the mechanics made an error. The house that my sister in law lives in is house then a driveway with a garage then another house with a driveway and a garage...followed by another house. The garages aren't connected to the houses so it's very difficult to tell which goes with which once you are further down the block.
@muliercingarus (60)
•
11 Jan 12
Ha ha ha - a brilliant story of a senior moment.
Heeee heee - my saying is
I shall enjoy my senior moments while I can still remember them!
MC
@SomeCowgirl (32191)
• United States
16 Aug 10
The first thing that popped into my mind was why didn't the mechanics just tell the police where they parked the car exactly? Reading the responses I see people are wondering why the police didn't allow the mechanics to do so. I know if I were the mechanics I would be hard pressed to want to say "here's where the car is!" especially if I was suspected of stealing the car. It makes me wonder exactly what the investigation held, I mean weren't the mechanics questioned? I think they may not have been just because the car could have been found two years ago shortly after the woman reported it stolen!
Now that guy who didn't go into garage for two years? Now I can understand procrastinating cleaning up the garage, but two years without stepping foot in the garage? A lot of people have an extra freezer or refrigerator in their garage, so It just makes me wonder why he never had cause to go out there. I wonder if maybe the guy was secretly driving it around, but then that wouldn't explain the dust on the vehicle either.
